Year 2
Mrs ChapmanWelcome to Year 2
Party Time 🎉
Year 1 and Year 2 had a fun filled afternoon at their Christmas party. They certainly impressed us with their amazing dance moves and superb singing. They enjoyed playing corners, pass the parcel, musical statues, musical bumps and a firm favourite - heads and tails!...
Weather Watchers
In our geography lessons we have been finding out where hot and cold places are located around the world. This week, we became weather watchers and investigated local temperatures and monitored rainfall so we could find out if we lived in a hot or cold place. We...
Prickly Hay Production
Yesterday Years 1,2 and 3 performed their production Prickly Hay! It was absolutely fantastic with amazing acting, singing and even dancing. We are so proud that the children remembered all their lines and said them so loudly and clearly. Everyone in the audience had...
The Christmas Journey
This morning, Year 2 visited Birtley Methodist Church and went on a very special journey back in time to hear all about the ‘Nativity Story’. They met Mary and Joseph, some shepherds and even one of the three wisemen! After that, everyone made their own Nativity...
Amazing Additions
Year 2 have been working hard adding two, 2 digit numbers. We used base 10 and a place value chart to help us set out each number in an organised way. We then had to first add the ones together and then add the tens together. These small steps helped up to calculate...
Fabulous Finger Puppets!
In design technology Year 2 have started to investigate different puppets. This week we looked at finger puppets and thought about different animal puppets that younger children would like to play with. We sketched out our designs and then used card to draw and...
Marvellous Materials
In Science, Year 2 have began to investigate everyday materials. We went on a material hunt around school and found lots of objects made from wood, metal and plastic. We then looked at more objects in the classroom and started to describe their properties. At the end...
Curious about Continents 🌍🌎
Year 2 have been learning about the continents of the world and what a continent is. The children were certainly curious looking at globes, maps and atlases to help them answer a range of questions. They looked closely at the shape, size and location of each continent...
Celebrating Black History
Black History Month is celebrated in the UK every October. Each week, in assembly, the children have been learning about significant Black people and the outstanding contributions they have made to society in Britain and worldwide. It has also been a time of...
🎼🎷Our Local Heroes! 🎤🎸
Today, we had a special visit from Gateshead Music Service, where we celebrated some local heroes through music. We learnt about some exceptional individuals such as Earl Grey, Grace Darling, Thomas Hepburn, Joseph Swan, William Armstrong and their achievements. We...
Related Number Facts
Year 2 have been working hard in Maths lessons and spotting connections and related facts. Today, the children used their knowledge of number bonds to 10 to find number bonds to 100. They used the stem sentence 'If 4 ones + 6 ones = 10 then I know 4 tens + 6 tens =...
Can you wash a woolly mammoth?
This week year 2 were given the challenge to wash and clean a toy animal so they could try to work out the steps to wash a mammoth. First, they filled a bowl of water and added bubbles. Then they scrubbed and rubbed the animals so it was lovely and clean. They even...